Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as bodark.
Wiktionary
- n. US The Osage orange.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Southwestern U.S. The Osage orange.
Etymologies
- Corruption of bois d'arc. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Osage Orange (also known as bodarc or bodock, based upon the French name bois d'arc).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bodock’.
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End in -ock
Inspired by fbharjo (see spitchcock).
spitchcock, hillock, willock, peacock, pajock, penock, yapock, sycock, bittock, bawcock, burrock, cammock and 168 more...
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ramages
names of trees and bushes and other asundry items that name branching
juniper, pinon, tamarind, ponderosa pine, douglas fir, locust, sycamore, cottonwood, mountain mahogany, blue spruce, cedar, aspen and 76 more...
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Eudora Welty
scallopy, time's nick, joggling board, kindling, Scotch legs, bless out, unselfishness, gorgette, thumbnail, norate, fluzions, mirate and 9 more...
Tweets
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mollusque Well, but there's bodocks and bodocks growing between here and the road," said Elvie. "They're lining our way. They couldn't all be Grandpa Vaughn's horse switches from when he came riding to see Granny and get her to marry 'im."
--Eudora Welty, 1970, Losing Battles Dec 24, 2010